6:47 AM,
Nov. 16, 2013

A photo of Heaven, a pit bull brought to Shrewsbury Animal Hospital in Tinton Falls malnourished and near death.

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The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office may consider making a case of animal cruelty indictable as a 7-month-old pit bull named Heaven clings to life in the Shrewsbury Animal Hospital after being brought in malnourished and suffering from burns.

An Asbury Park man, his mother and his grandmother have been charged with animal cruelty after the Shrewsbury Animal Hospital notified the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of a dog named Heaven that was brought in near death, authorities said.

At 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday, the animal hospital called Chief Victor ...